Don't Panic show you how to make the same utterly useless Blue Pete 'bomb detectors' the British government is helping to sell to foreign security services
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I made this!
Freedom of Information requests made by Don’t Panic can reveal that UK Trade and Investment Defence & Security Organisation, which reports jointly to Mr Hague in the Foreign Office and Mr Cable at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, has been helping a British company called Global Technical to sell fake bomb detectors all around the world.
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Also of interest:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8471187.stm
The bit I hate the most is that the cuntrag selling them is a Brit. I thought, as a nation, that we were better than that. Furthermore, it seems since that report that all the company's done is change names.
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you thought that britain,
home to companies that sold cluster bombs and land mines til they were banned, sold electro-stun batons until they were caught and a variety of weapons to oppressive regimes (like mubarak's egypt), was better than that?
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tickle I was away, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 12:47,
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We, as a nation, were just too obsessed with other things
to care it seems.
Honestly, why did it take them 10 years to get onto these guys.
(, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 12:50, Share, Reply)
has been in Private-Eye magazine
years ago.
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Avast is still alive!!!!, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 12:52,
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"The training manual for the device says it can even, with the right card, detect elephants, humans and 100 dollar bills."
Very handy if you've lost an elephant.
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emergency_pants Today I smell of... tea tree, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 13:29,
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You might wanna label that as NSFW
what with the photo of people lying dead next to an exploded car bomb n stuff.
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 12:36,
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Reading this
Then seeing the 'I made this' marker made me feel suspicious. I may just call MI5.
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Hellzapoppin, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 12:37,
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and a guy in a dress will be sent out to investigate
or is that MI6?
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Avast is still alive!!!!, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 12:50,
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You are of course assuming that user Orchid interacts/reads comments.
(which I'm guessing by his profile he doesn't)
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 13:38,
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